Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-10
one half percentum, and all this was done

while laboring under the great loa
of a national debt placed upo
the shoulders of the Republican
party by Democratic hands, that it was tn
Republican party that founded and mair
tanned system of tariff, the proceeds o
which has enabled them to decrease tn
national debt from $2,773, 2S6, 173 in 1856
to 81, 1884, III, 1928 in 1883, and is still dom
it from $10,000,OO4 to $4,000, 900 pc
month. Deduct the amount of the presen
surplus in the United States treasury
$500, 000, 900, and the probable reduction
of the debt since 1888, and we have tn,
debt down to a little over the round sun
of 81, 900, 200, 900.
Now after the Republican party ha'
made as grand. as noble and as brilliant {
record as the foregoing it is simply going
beyond the bounds of sense, reason
or even common decency to charge it with
history and record as black and as
dampable and as reasonable as the action
of Benedict Arnold or the kiss of Judas
Isca riot, as is stated in the Beacon article.
A man who would make such extreme
and extravagant comparisons, and in the
main such groundless charges on the slight
provocation of the agitation of question
which kindled anew the old patriotic fires
and found expression in natural comments
in the press is man that is danger unto
himself, his community and the nation.
Again, we find him making party
and its principles responsible for his
individual action. If, in the employment
of thousands of men in places of public
trust we find an occasional man who betrays
that trust, is the party which employs that
person and its psinciples responsible for
that individual act. The answer most en-
phatically must be in the negative. When
all men become perfect without sin or fault
there will we have absolute honesty in the
administration of public affairs, but that
period will hardly come this time on earth.
There lays before me an Ohio paper in
which is noticed an account of the defaul
cation of Democratic money order clerk,
one William Buckley Coshoction
Ohio who was compelled to
to bring to light 81, 600, and on not being
able to produce a still further deficit of
over $571 he was arrested Now it would
be in no sense just to charge the Demo
cratic party and its principles with that in
dividual act as even the Democratic party
C annot make everybody honest any more
than any other party. ... ,
Because men sometimes betray public
and private trusts and bank cashiers alb
scond, it is no evidence that public and
private institutions are not good and bene-
fetal in the main.
Hence, if in looking at the record of a
party we find its good and benefcent re
suits far overwhelming its few mistakes we
must say, come up higher thou good and
faithful servant, and that Is where we are
are going in 1888.
AS far as the charges of dishonesty or
in the administration of the
government are concerned, they are wholly
to the facts and records.
In looking over the records we find that |
the losses and money unaccounted for per
thousand during Democratic administra-
lion, far exceeds that of Republican ad
For instance the losses per
thousand during Democratic administra-
ion in collections and disbursements are
IS follows:
Jackson'S administration. ......... 81 SO |
Monroe's I" sc .. 50
Van Buren's I" ... II II
3uchanan's G. ....... 81
We do not find any Democratic admin
stratiOn in which the loss was 1eSS than